Prizes and awards

Hermine TERTRAIS, PhD student at Centrale Nantes in the GeM - Institute for Research in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 51st International Microwave Power Institute (IMPI) Symposium held in Miami, from 20 to 22 June 2017.

Anass Cherki El Idrissi received the 'René Houpert' young researchers award at the 'Rencontres Annuelles Universitaires de Génie Civil' organised this year by the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering from 22 to 24 May in Nantes.

Having previously secured major ERC funding to undertake their research, Nicolas Moës (Dean of Research at Centrale Nantes) and researcher Gilles Marckmann have been awarded a grant of €150,000 to develop the industrial applications of their research.

The Floatgen project for the first offshore wind turbine in France, which is soon to be completed in the Port of Saint-Nazaire, received the “prix Energies Renouvelables” (Renewable Energies Award) for the 2017 Trophées de la Transition Energétique (Energy Transition Trophy) organised by L'Usine Nouvelle during a ceremony on Tuesday 16 May in the presence of Jean Jouzel, climatologist and former vice-president of the IPCC.

Sophie Sakka, lecturer at Centrale Nantes, was appointed a Knight of the French National Order of Merit (Chevalier de l'Ordre national du mérite) at the beginning of May 2017. Congratulations to our outstanding researcher and president of the Robots! association.

The Nantes-based digital initiative "Nantes 1900", to which Centrale Nantes contributed, has received a ‘Territoires innovants’ (Innovative areas) award from the Interconnectés Association.

Congratulations to Arvo KALDMÄE, former PhD student at Centrale Nantes at the doctoral school STIM, who has just received the first thesis prize from the Estonian Academy of Sciences for his thesis defended in June 2016.

Congratulations to PhD student Ali Nour Eddine winner of the "Best Paper Award" at the International Conference on Energy Recovery held in Malaysia in early December.

The 25th SAMPE France Technical Days were held on 17 & 18 November in Montargis and at the HUTCHINSON Research Centre. Congratulations to the team of six Centrale Nantes students, winners of the national Composite Bridge competition. This is the second win for Centrale Nantes since 2013.

A look back at the “Prix de l'ingénierie du futur” (Engineering of the future prize) on 19th October 2016. The “Ma Paille” (My Straw) Centrale Nantes student project team didn’t make it onto the podium, but the experience was very rewarding.

Congratulations to Sophie Sakka, Centrale Nantes researcher and professor, who was awarded the entrepreneurship prize for her Rob’autism project at this year’s edition of Digital Ouest, one of the key events of Nantes Digital Week.

Dr. Ahmed Z. Bendimerad, research engineer at Centrale Nantes, with the Edycem Industrial Chair, received the Best Short-Term Scientific Mission award on 24 August at the Technical University of Denmark.

The six edition of the bi-annual TRA (Transport Research Arena), dedicated to transport research in Europe, was held in Poland from 18th to 21st April 2016.

Corentin Hermange, PhD student at the LHEEA Laboratory (Hydrodynamics, Energetics & Atmospheric Environment), received the best student paper award at the "Conference on Violent Flows" held in Osaka, Japan from 9th to 11th March.

10-vins, a start-up of the Centrale-Audencia-ensa business incubator, receives the "Best Start-up Award" at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Congratulations to Panagiotis KOTRONIS, Professor at Centrale Nantes and member of the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM). In recognition of his research, he has been awarded the AFPS (French Association for Earthquake Engineering) prize.

Yesterday, the SPH-Flow software, co-developed by LHEEA and HydrOcean (spin-off of Centrale Nantes created in 2007), received the Innovation Award of the first Numerical Simulation Trophy organized by Teratec and L'Usine Digitale.

Nicolas MOES, Professor at Centrale Nantes, will be awarded the CNRS Silver Medal on September 23, 2014 at Centrale Nantes for the originality, quality and impact of his nationally and internationally recognized work.

Erwan Jacquin, CEO of HydrOcean and graduate of Centrale Nantes, received the HPC Innovation Excellence Award 2013 at the Supercomputing 2013 conference (SC13).